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633: Magical Systems Thinking

October 16th, 2025  |  1 hr 6 mins

berkeley, brian kernighan, bsd, cli, code, dataset, debt-fueled acquisition, development, distribution, distro, dragonflybsd, features, filesystem, foss, freebsd, gershwin, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, innovations, interview, jails, kde plasma 6, mac-like, magical, netbsd, nixos, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, roadmap, rust, shell, software, storage, systems thinking, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, wayland, zfs, zpool

ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations, Magical systems thinking, How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, OpenSSH 10.1 Released, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD, Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS, Balkanization of the Internet, GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist, and more

611: Ghosty Things

May 15th, 2025  |  49 mins 2 secs

berkeley, bpf, bpflogd, bsd, ci/cd system, cli, code, college freshman, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, improvements, interview, jails, kde plasma generations, log files, logging, netbsd, no trust ai, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, packet capture, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, struggle and renewal, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, workstation, zfs, zfs tuning, zpool

GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal, Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS, Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files, What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025, FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations, Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems, FreeBSD as a Workstation, and more

598: UFS1 up-to-date

February 13th, 2025  |  1 hr 5 mins

ansible, asiabsdcon, benchmarking, berkeley, bsd, cli, code, considerations, dataset, date limit, desktop conference, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, external zroot, filesystem, foss, freebsd, ghostbsd, github issue, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, network storage performance, open source, openbsd, openzfs 2.3.0, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, recovering, release, shell, software, storage, stories, tools, trueos, tutorial, ufs1, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance, OpenZFS 2.3.0 available, Updates on AsiaBSDcon, GhostBSD Desktop Conference, Recovering from external zroot, Create a new issue in a Github repository with Ansible, Stories I refuse to believe, date limit in UFS1 filesystem extended, and more

589: The buffering pipe

December 12th, 2024  |  58 mins 28 secs

berkeley, bsd, buffer, buffering, cli, clock, code, crisis, cyrix, dataset, development, disk i/o, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, history, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, omnios server, open source, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, packages, pipes, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, stuck, time sync, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, userland, utility, zfs, zpool

Open-Source Software Is in Crisis, A Brief History of Cyrix, Userland Disk I/O, OPNsense 24.7.9 released, GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available, Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering, Keep your OmniOS server time synced, and more

440: BSD Inside Zone

February 3rd, 2022  |  44 mins 57 secs

berkeley, bsd, dataset, desktop, distribution, dragonflybsd, dummynet, freebsd, ghostbsd, gnome, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, inside zone, installation, interview, linux rant, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, packet scheduling, ports, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vfs, virtual filesystem switch, zfs, zpool

GhostBSD 22.01 is available, Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD, Inside zone installation, Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant, How to install Gnome on OpenBSD, The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch", and more.

433: GhostBSD of Christmas

December 16th, 2021  |  29 mins 18 secs

berkeley, bsd, chdir, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, eden x2, freebsd, ghostbsd, gui, gui package manager, guide, hardenedbsd, hewlett packard, howto, hp, interview, modem, netbsd, octopkg, open source, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, packages, ports, posix_spawn, release, shell, software, t510, thin client, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, v7, via, via eden, web interface, zfs, zpool

GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO available, why v7 matters so much, OpenBSD on VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client, OctoPkg GUI Package Manager, chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3), install doas on FreeBSD, Access Modem's Web Interface with OPNsense, and more

425: Releases galore

October 21st, 2021  |  41 mins 57 secs

berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hello system, howto, interview, libressl, lumina, midnightbsd, netbsd, open source, openbgpd, openbsd, opensense, operating system, os, packages, patches, ports, release, riscv, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vortex86dx, zfs, zpool

The New Architecture on the Block, OpenBSD on Vortex86DX CPU, lots of new releases, and more.

420: OpenBSD makes life better

September 16th, 2021  |  49 mins 18 secs

apple m1, arm64, bandwidth management, berkeley, bsd, changes, dataset, desktop, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, improvements, internet, interview, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, pool layout, ports, release, router, router project, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wifi, wireless, zfs, zpool

Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout, changes in OpenBSD that make life better, GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available, Fair Internet bandwidth management with OpenBSD, NetBSD wifi router project update, NetBSD on the Apple M1, HardenedBSD August Status Report, FreeBSD Journal on Wireless and Desktop, and more.

419: Rethinking OS installs

September 9th, 2021  |  51 mins 39 secs

alpha cpu, berkeley, bsd, dataset, dec, distribution, done differently, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, irix, learning, llvm, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, os install, packages, port, ports, qemu, rc.d, release, rethink, retrospect, review, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, x11, zfs, zpool

Reviewing a first OpenBSD port, NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11, FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install, GhostBSD switching to FreeBSD rc.d, Irix gets LLVM, and more.

415: Wrong OS Switch

August 12th, 2021  |  54 mins 17 secs

berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freedom, ghostbsd, git sync murder, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, i2p, init system, interview, mistakes, net/1, net/2, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, permissions, ports, release, riscv64, server os, shell, software, switch, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool